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Nominative determinism redux

NOMINATIVE determinism is the name given by the late C. R. Cavonius, of the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund, Germany, to the notion that names influence occupations (17 December 1994). He was inspired by Jen Hunt, who wrote in The Psychologist that “Authors gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname” (5 November 1994). She had cited an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology by …